Set in southern Mississippi and southeast Georgia, The Search for Shannon is the story of four women brought together by the birth and subsequent adoption of one child. Andie, the elusive blonde who fled her Texas hometown with a deeply hidden secret only to return twenty years to right the wrongs and reveal the truth. Dana, Andie's daughter, raised by her father but hungers only for her mother's love. Diana, the pampered southern belle who do could have anything, except the one thing she longs for most, and Zoe, the golden child, torn between two families and the question of her heritage.